EG Radio Interview with Chris Turner
“If Canadians really want to see climate action, we need to hand politicians the political will. If we are willing to punish politicians who don’t put a price on carbon…
October 2018
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Don Pittis writes that the disastrous results of the U.S.’ giveaways to corporations and wealthy individuals – including a ballooning deficit which…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday October 18, 2018. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. If a deceased person owed support to a spouse…
New column day
Here, discussing the Price of Oil collaborative’s latest report on how the Saskatchewan Party is requiring provincial regulators to keep the public at risk in order to avoid having oil…
Show Him The Money!
Lawrence Martin understands what is at Donald Trump’s core — money, plain and simple: While so much of Mr. Trump’s policymaking is helter-skelter, scattershot, spur of the moment, it’s not…
Andrew Scheer’s Pathetic Reefer Madness
Chris Young/Associated PressIt was one of the biggest parties this country has seen for a long time. The one that began when the bud came down at the stroke of…
Highly concentrated ownership of Canadian fossil fuel sector leaves little incentive for change, study indicates
Highly concentrated corporate ownership of Canada’s energy sector and lack of government influence means there’s very little incentive for the fossil fuel industry to pay attention to the dangers of…
Thumper: 1932 to 2018
The Hon. Donald S. Macdonald has died. We were never friends. He might have served in Pierre Trudeau’s cabinet and we were both Torontonians but we never exchanged much more…
These Companies Convert Waste to Profits
Both the food and clothing industry produce tons of waste, waste which has traditionally been dumped into landfills. One company is taking food waste and mixing it with special bacteria…
Faith Goldy: The Female Misogynist
I never engaged with Faith Goldy in any way until a few months ago when this happened: After Goldy began following me, I felt I would be rude if I…
Accessible Spaces
To ensure a healthy city our citizens need vibrant public spaces. Better parks and recreation is why Stuart Mackinnon is running.
Get To Know A Racist Candidate: Luigi Gino Del-Ciotto
Meet Luigi Gino Del-Ciotto, currently running for a council seat in Princeton, BC: Mr. Del-Ciotto has a little bit of a past however in that he was a long time…
Regina 100% Renewable by 2050
More videos of the night to come…
The Psychotic States of America
Legendary Canadian historian and astonishingly prolific author, Pierre Berton, was discussing his 1982 book, “Why We Act Like Canadians,” when he was asked what he found to be the biggest…
Small town rules
In their book, Small Town Rules (Pearson Education Inc., USA, 2012), authors Barry Moltz and Becky McCray explain seven rules for businesses that use the model of a small town…
In Memoriam – Pierre Berton (1920 – 2004)
It’s only fitting that, on this day, we remember legendary Canadian author, historian, and bon vivant, Pierre Berton, seen here as he reveals his secrets for rolling a really fine…
A Bang or a Fizzle?
Bloomberg is reporting that special counsel, Robert Mueller, is about to deliver his report into the two key aspects of his investigation – dealings between the Trump campaign and the…
Fall Speaking Engagements
I’m fortunate enough to have been invited to speak about my current research and other projects at a few institutions in Quebec and Ontario this Fall (2018). It’s always so…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Robert Cribb, Patti Sonntag, Michael Wrobel, P.W. Elliott and Carolyn Jarvis examine the Saskatchewan Party government’s utter refusal to monitor or regulate pollution…